...and an implementation only supporting 24-bit LBA's can still claim compliance. The sector size and the LBA range are constants within a disk partition, or a key scope. Any implementation of the standard, which works for a particular data format on a particular device, is compliant. Key scopes could be restricted to the whole disk or to a disk partition or logical drive, or they can span multiple drives. We came back to my point that in the most important applications, disk-internal encryptions, there is NO interoperability.
Laszlo > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: 1619 (disk) wording > From: Shai Halevi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, January 17, 2006 2:52 pm > To: SISWG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > The point is that extending the transform to handle sectors of other > > sizes is just that - an extension. [...] > > Which reminds me: since the standard supports mutiple sector lengths, we > need to add some language to say that a compliant implementation need not > support arbitrary length (e.g., an implementation that only supports > 512-byte sectors should be able to claim compliance with the standard). > > -- Shai
